Is there a way to determine the time of the last config change?
Currently configs are “backed up” every 24hrs, whether there has been a config change or not,
so one of my monthly tasks is to dedupe 10000+ config files (down to ~430)
Its quite tiresome…
( could be worse - previously it had been considered a good idea to run 3 “back ups” a day…)
No, time of last change is not available.
There are tools to show differences in (text) files, it’s possible to automate process.
In my Splunk for MikroTik I do log all config changes. For older version its not detailed as it is for version 7. With version 7 it logs all commands.
See link in my signature.
Example on 6.x logs:
2021-07-18 16:03:32 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin changed nat rule
2021-07-18 15:58:21 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin changed nat rule
2021-07-18 15:03:27 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin changed nat rule
2021-07-18 09:45:51 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin changed nat rule
2021-07-18 09:45:47 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin changed nat rule
2021-07-18 09:23:42 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin added nat rule
2021-07-17 21:41:48 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin added address list entry
2021-07-17 08:38:31 192.168.88.1 Ro1 admin settings changed script
Is not true for my point of view, because I know better some aspects of RouterOS…
And for sure you know better some others aspects than me.
Simply check the history action on memory, if the time of last changed config is different, than something is changed…
the list is on reverse-order, must be selected the first, not the last:
/system history
:put [get ([find]->0) time]
Obviously if is empty nothing changed…
/system history
:if ([:len [find]] = 0) do={.....}
thanks Jotne, I’ll look at Splunk with Mikrotik logs, could be interesting.
But I think rextended method looks good, I’ll test
Thanks!